Black Panther wakanda forever with surprises.

The ruler of the underwater kingdom Talocan, the hybrid mutant makes his first live-action appearance in this movie.

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"Issues of rights" prevented Studios and director Ryan Coogler from featuring Namor in 2018's Black Panther

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Dating back to 1997, Marvel Studios developed Namor: Sub-Mariner with filmmaker Philip Kaufman.

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Rights for such characters as Iron Man and Captain America were scattered across many studios.

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And then Namor landed at Hulk studio Universal Pictures in 2001.

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After a decade, Marvel Studios and Universal developed a Namor the Sub-Mariner movie.

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The live-action Hulk rights also has a same deal between Marvel Studios and Universal: where Disney Marvel has character rights, Universal holds distribution rights

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You will not believe this, seriously!

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